glair

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See also: g'laïr

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Etymology

From Middle English glaire, from Old French glaire, from Vulgar Latin *clāria, a substantive use of Latin clārus (“clear”).

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Noun

glair (countable and uncountable, plural glairs)

  1. Egg white, especially as used in various industrial preparations.
    • 2021, Hana Videen, The Wordhord, Profile Books, published 2022, page 65:
      If you beat an egg white until a froth forms on the surface, the clear liquid below the froth is glair.
  2. Any viscous, slimy substance.
    • 1962, The Fishing Gazette, page 276:
      Some rain fell during the past few days but had little effect on the river which remains very low and full of glair.
    • 1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:
      She jacked with authority, knowing how to slick the glair over the glans with her thumb when it began to flow, how to pace a shaftlength voluptuous stroke with a whole slide from meatus to os pubis, how to work with a loving will.
  3. A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd.

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Verb

glair (third-person singular simple present glairs, present participle glairing, simple past and past participle glaired)

  1. To smear with egg-white.

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